"Fancy dress would keep a good many away," she said. "I should love it, but it really is an expense, you know."
"Weston can buy a penny bottle of gum and come as a foreign stamp."
"Do be serious, Mr. Mackie, now! We want the social to be for everybody here——"
"And their friends," Miss Levey interpolated, with a look of private understanding at Kitty Windus. There was a short interlude between the two women.
"You won't find out, Miriam!"
"I vill!"
"Did you offer him tickets for the Holborn?"
"Yes; but he vouldn't buy them."
"Doesn't Mrs. J. as-is-to-be dance?"
"I don't know. He vouldn't buy the tickets."